0 an official area that is part of a federal system of government (= a group of regions that have their own government but are also controlled by a central government):
Federal districts are a level of administration of a federal government.
In Russia, federal districts are groupings of the federal subjects of Russia, its constituent entities.
The Assistant US Attorney of the Knoxville area federal district declined to comment Monday.
The suit was tossed out by a federal district judge in October.
The federal district court ultimately sentenced him to five consecutive life sentences.
There are two federal police forces, 31 state police forces (and two for the federal district) and one estimate suggests over 1,600 municipal police forces.
The case was already in the federal district court.
Involving the direct participation of 240 professors and 65,132 students, these activities reach nearly 185,000 people in the federal district and the surrounding region.
